It does not settle for a real estate empire and the United States presidency, the Trump family climbs to the telephone wars like in 2011 with a brilliant gold monstrosity called T1, whose marketing is widely based on the narrowest idea of patriotism. Beyond the immediate question, why, like this,? – T1 invites a question that is perhaps easier to interrogate: how can any modern smartphone be made in the US?
For the last 40 years, America has made a massive globalization effort that allows companies to choose and choose where they develop and build hardware that returns to the United States. The best chips to run the phone are integrated into Taiwan, regardless of the telephone maker. The best phones are built in China, India or Vietnam. Screens are often produced in Korea. The glass is really made in America. The sand that will become the chips of silicon wafers are made You also get here. But most phones, and almost every smartphone in America are devices produced worldwide. A Golden Trump All-American Telephone is as fantastic as Bill’s great promise to make all Americans rich.
The phone has reasonable specifications for the price of $ 499. There is an AMOLED screen of 6.8 inches with a punch hole for the 16MP front camera, 12 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage. Its rear camera range includes a 50mp main camera, a 2MP depth sensor and a 2MP macro lens. The processor has, above all, the lack of the list of specifications. Maybe it’s a typography, or maybe it’s because almost every smartphone processors are made abroad.
Several analysts have suggested that Trump T1 is actually a rehabilitation review. It is an Android $ 200 phone currently offered by T-Mobile in the United States and manufactured by Wingtech, a state-owned Chinese telephone maker and a semiconductor manufacturer. However, specifications and appearance are better aligned with € 180 (also about $ 200) Coolpad X100, which is mentioned as a “related telephone” with T1 In the database of smartphone Gsmarena. Similarly, this phone has a 6.8 -inch AMOLED screen, 256 GB of internal storage and up to 12 GB of RAM, but its cameras have a significantly higher resolution and has a flash integrated into the camera module. Like Guard 7, it is made in China by a Chinese company.
Don Jr and Eric Trump have not said if the T1 is a reskin of the review 7, or any other telephone existing for this topic, instead of insisting that their device will be held in the United States. (Keep in mind that the word “eventually” is doing a lot of work.) The Trump brothers have chosen their words as the lawyers who saw them, probably because the Made in America claims that it is not just marketing, it is required by the Federal Commerce Commission. You can’t simply blow it for a crunchy Chinese phone and call it up to date.
“The FTC really has very strict regulations on how to label products and country of origin,” said Todd Weaver, CEO and founder of Purism. Purism is a North -American company that produces its own operating system to compete with iOS and Android and is the only company in the United States that can use any part of the “made in America” for its phones. In our call it sounded a bit irritated about T1’s claims, but I wanted to explain how the labeling works.
“I don’t make this statement and make all the electronics in the United States,” said Weaver. Purism had to go with a processor that is not a telephone for the Liberty telephone because no company based in America does (still) telephone processors. Even with a non -standard chip, the purism processor comes from the manufacture of its supplier in South Korea. He found that it is an economic challenge that also caused a chassis in the United States. An unskilled claim in America would mean that a phone was not only mounted here, but each part of the device was also manufactured here. This is an essentially impossible task for telephone manufacturers. That is why the purism telephone has the label made in the electronics of America. The weaver could get a lot, but not all parts made in the United States.
Although theoretically it is possible that Trump brothers could take all the wealth they have been accumulating since their father re -entered the Oval Office to force a more American telephone, he will not pass soon. Trump T1, which claims to be sold in September, cannot carry this label, at least not legally. (Whether the current FTC would pursue the President’s children to mistakenly represent the T1 is another story.
What happens to other pro-American manufacturing tags? The Trump brothers have suggested that the phones will meet here, even if it is not currently the review 7 (or Coolpad X100). These labels are also governed by FTC and are not easy to move. FTC provides a simple “screwdriver” operation (importing almost completely foreign parts and adjusting -together in the states) A simple example of the consumer’s deception.
This is a lesson we all learned when Apple promised to start building computers nationwide. In 2019 he announced a large factory in Texas under the pressure of the Trump administration to bring more manufacturing jobs in America. But although people put screws on Mac pros in the state, they cannot carry the “mounted in America” label. Instead, they are “designed in America” and a “Thailand product” with “Final Assembly in America”. It is a global device.
Electronics is global devices and no golden golden or misleading claims of the presidents of the children of the Americans can change it. It Better estimates Manufacturing experts say it will be half a decade, at least, before Apple or Samsung could be building phones in the United States.
The weaver has already thought of denouncing the Trump brothers for claiming that his T1 torn in gold is made in America and said that anyone (Even you, dear reader) I could do the same.
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